Not trying to start anything, and if this is the wrong place to post about it I apologize, I’m not sure where else to broach the topic, but as a user I’ve noticed an enormous increase is moderator action today and I’m curious if there was some catalyst that the userbase should be aware of. Prior to today, the modlog shows only a few mod actions most days, and previous entire months can fit within one screenview. Furthermore, most of those actions were locking posts or removing and reprimanding specific offending comments. Yet today there is an entire wave of moderator actions, including such vague notes as “Troll Post” on meme posts with significant engagement.

I promise I’m not trying to start drama, I am just concerned as I love Lemmy and want to see it and the community thrive, and I am concerned about the same issues that plague Reddit could potentially find their way here.

That said, I also understand this isn’t a democracy, so if the reply is simply “that’s how it is,” I guess I’m going to just shrug and accept it.

  • @fartington
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    411 days ago

    I did not know the logs can be purged. That would require the admin to actually care though.

    • @sunaurus
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      210 days ago

      Purging is something that can’t really be used to hide mod actions, as any federated instances will still retain their copy of any purged content. Purging is a feature which is only really useful for completely removing illegal content from our servers, it’s used quite rarely and in fact leaves a trace in the mod log as well.

      • @fartington
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        311 days ago

        Can’t wait for all the reddit powermods to come here

        • Alice
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          411 days ago

          It’s honestly already bad. Lemmy is worse then reddit is now bc a lot of those ppl came here when the api thing happened

        • @VespairOP
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          311 days ago

          This is my concern. Or rather, my concern is that we will simply be replicating the reddit powermod problem with Lemmy powermods. I think we have the chance to learn from problems of the past, and I am worried we are not taking that opportunity